Table of Contents

Preface Mary Lamb Brother and Sister Triumph and Pain Dorothy Wordsworth A Pensive Young Lady Grasmere and Beyond Sarah Disraeli A Pure and Perfect Love Witness To History Index

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The story of three remarkable 19th-century British women: Mary Lamb, Dorothy Wordsworth, and Sarah Disraeli.

About the Author

MICHAEL POLOWETZKY was born in London and currently lives in New York. His most recent book, Jerusalem Recovered (Praeger, 1995), analyzes the role of British Victorian intellectuals in the creation of modern Zionism.

Reviews

"Through a wealth of detail gleaned from letters, memoirs, newspapers, periodicals, and historical texts, this biographical work portrays the lives and writings of three women neglected in a traditional literary history that privileges their more famous brothers....Weaving into his accounts the women's letters, papers, and creative works, [Polowetzky] offers evidence of literary ability, intellectual acumen, and social skills, as well as the women's well-known devotion to their siblings' work....Polowetzky's study gives these neglected women stature in their own right and encourages scholars to investigate their work and lives."-Choice

?Through a wealth of detail gleaned from letters, memoirs, newspapers, periodicals, and historical texts, this biographical work portrays the lives and writings of three women neglected in a traditional literary history that privileges their more famous brothers....Weaving into his accounts the women's letters, papers, and creative works, [Polowetzky] offers evidence of literary ability, intellectual acumen, and social skills, as well as the women's well-known devotion to their siblings' work....Polowetzky's study gives these neglected women stature in their own right and encourages scholars to investigate their work and lives.?-Choice